to sum up the information surrounding particular events, thoughts or feelings

Writing the opening of a diary entry based on 'How To Train Your Dragon'

English

In this unit, pupils embed narrative skills including show-not-tell and dialogue to convey character and a were introduced to a range of cohesive devices. In 'The Viewer', pupils will further develop their use of cohesive devices and develop strategies to build suspense when describing a setting.

In 'Whale Rider', pupils developed their narrative writing skills by using show-not-tell and dialogue to convey character. In this unit, pupils will further embed these skills and use a range of devices to build cohesion. 

In this unit, pupils use their knowledge of the text 'How To Train Your Dragon' to write a setting description, a narrative opening and a diary entry. Pupils use one stimulus to write for several outcomes, writing for different purposes by demonstrating certain techniques in each.

'How to Train Your Dragon': diary and narrative writing

Information in the opening of a diary entry should be kept ...

sharing of over-arching thoughts and feelings

a linking sentence which leads on to the next paragraph

Key elements to include in the opening of a diary entry are which of these?

main body part 1 - describing dragon training

main body part 2 - describing dragon training

Order the parts of our diary entry based on 'How To Train Your Dragon'.

a list of the only writing skills that should be included

can be ticked off as the writer goes along

Which linguistic features can be used to help create an informal tone in a diary entry?

the point of view where the speaker or writer is the 'I/we' character

when events are recounted in the order in which they happened

Match the key terms to their definitions:

Select words appropriate to use when writing in the first person perspective:

Match the contractions to their uncontracted forms:

The purpose of a diary entry is to do which of these?

my heart sinks every time I think about going back again tomorrow

Select the examples of show-not-tell from the list:

Starter Quiz